While they fiddle, the world burns.

[rubato]

While the Republican-Right fiddle, the world burns.


Maybe we should all say we're sorry to BP for letting our ocean take all their oil like that.


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http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1559

Yes, the World Is Getting Warmer

Another all-time temperature record:

Jeff Masters: Weather Underground: At 4pm local time today in Moscow, Russia, the temperature surpassed 100°F for the first time in recorded history. The high temperature of 100.8°F (37.8°C) recorded at the Moscow Observatory, the official weather location for Moscow, beat Moscow's previous record of 99.5°F (37.5°C), set just three days ago, on July 26. Prior to 2010, Moscow's hottest temperature of all-time was 36.6°C (98.2°F), set in August, 1920. Records in Moscow go back to 1879. Baltschug, another official downtown Moscow weather site, hit an astonishing 102.2°F (39.0°C) today. Finland also recorded its hottest temperature in its history today, when the mercury hit 99°F (37.2°C) at Joensuu. The old (undisputed) record was 95°F (35°C) at Jvaskyla on July 9, 1914. There is little relief in sight, as the latest forecast for Moscow predicts continued highs in the 90s for most of the coming week.

Given that the planet as a whole has seen record high temperatures the past four months in a row, it should not be a surprise to see unprecedented heat waves like the Russian heat wave. A record warm planet "loads the dice" in favor of regional heat waves more extreme than anything experienced in recorded history.... Fourteen extreme national high temperature records have been set in 2010. This year now ranks in second place for the most number of countries that have set extreme heat records, according to a list supplied to me today by Chris Burt.... Finland recorded its hottest temperature on July 29, 2010, when the mercury hit 99°F (37.2°C) at Joensuu. The old (undisputed) record was 95°F (35°C) at Jvaskyla on July 9, 1914. Qatar had its hottest temperature in history on July 14, 2010, when the mercury hit 50.4°C (122.7°F) at Doha Airport. Russia had its hottest temperature in history on July 11, when the mercury rose to 44.0°C (111.2°F) in Yashkul, Kalmykia Republic, in the European portion of Russia near the Kazakhstan border.... Sudan recorded its hottest temperature in its history on June 25 when the mercury rose to 49.6°C (121.3°F) at Dongola.... Niger tied its record for hottest day in history on June 22, 2010, when the temperature reached 47.1°C (116.8°F) at Bilma. That record stood for just one day, as Bilma broke the record again on June 23, when the mercury topped out at 48.2°C (118.8°F). The previous record was 47.1°C on May 24, 1998, also at Bilma. Saudi Arabia had its hottest temperature ever on June 22, 2010, with a reading of 52.0°C (125.6°F) in Jeddah.... Chad had its hottest day in history on June 22, 2010, when the temperature reached 47.6°C (117.7°F) at Faya.... Kuwait recorded its hottest temperature in history on June 15 in Abdaly, according to the Kuwait Met office. The mercury hit 52.6°C (126.7°F).... Iraq had its hottest day in history on June 14, 2010, when the mercury hit 52.0°C (125.6°F) in Basra.... Pakistan had its hottest temperature in history on May 26, when the mercury hit an astonishing 53.5°C (128.3°F) at the town of MohenjuDaro.... Myanmar (Burma) had its hottest temperature in its recorded history on May 12, when the mercury hit 47°C (116.6°F) in Myinmu.... Ascention Island (St. Helena, a U.K. Territory) had its hottest temperature in history on March 25, 2010, when the mercury hit 34.9°C (94.8°C) at Georgetown.... The Solomon Islands had their hottest temperature in history on February 1, 2010, when the mercury hit 36.1°C (97°F) at Lata Nendo (Ndeni).... Columbia had its hottest temperature in history on January 24, 2010, when Puerto Salgar hit 42.3°C (108°F)...

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yrs,
rubato

[dales]

[Beer Sponge]

Not really crap dales, so much as reality. Heard of phytoplankton? Kinda generates the oxygen we breathe, and has declined 40% since 1950 (stat from the article). Check the link.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment ... 20156.html

[Andrew D]

But reality is crap. Just ask your local crackpot loony-fringer enemy of reason creationist.

[dales]

That tears it.



















I will no longer exhale.

Anyone who is so dead serious about "global warming" should do the same!

[liberty]

While the Republican-Right fiddle, the world burns.


Maybe we should all say we're sorry to BP for letting our ocean take all their oil like that.


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http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1559

Yes, the World Is Getting Warmer

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yrs,
rubato

Has there not been an increase in solar activities here lately; could there be correlation?

[Grim Reaper]

Here is a good site on all the various talking points used by climate change skeptics and how they're wrong.

As for the Sun, solar radiation has pretty much been at the same level since 1978.


And speaking of burning:

Roughly 2.5 million acres have burned so far this year in Russia.

And another disturbing bit of information:

The agriculture ministry said about 9.6 million hectares (24 million acres) of grain crops, an area the size of Kentucky, have been destroyed by the heat wave.

[dales]

The sky is falling!